On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Rahkonen Jukka (MML) <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I tried again with the brand new Geoserver 2.8.1.  GetCoverage for the
> whole mosaic (4 images, 12000 x 12000 pixels each) was now successful. The
> 1.6 GB output GeoTIFF is good. Memory consumption during the process with
> 32-bit jre and default java settings was no more than 360 MB. It took 1
> minute and 40 seconds to get the image with curl. So far I was happy.
>
>
>
> But there is something odd in how the service behaves.  It took whole 15
> minutes to serve the coverage with the very first time I made the
> GetCoverage reques but after that it was quite fast and I thought that
> everything is OK. But then I tested what happens if I send two 1.6 GB
> GetCoverages from two distinct curls. After 70 minutes I made a conclusion
> that even the process was still alive it was for sure all too slow for
> being useful and I killed curls. Unfortunately  even after killing the curl
> jobs the java.exe that runs Geoserver continued to use 20% of CPU and burn
> my hard disk. That stopped finally perhaps after 10 minutes.
>

Yep, this is happening because we cannot stream the tiff out directly, we
have to write it on disk first and return it later. And the HTTP protocol
is setup in such a way that
one can notice the client is no more there only by writing bytes out to it,
so killing the client request does exactly nothing unfortunately, GeoServer
keeps on processing
until the tiff is fully written, and then discovers the client is not there
anymore when trying to write out the first byte to the response socket.

If you have a 32bit JRE it might be that you don't have enough memory
allocated to the java runtime, which will make the two requests compete for
the entries
in the tile cache, one stealing cached tiles from the other, hampering
progress.... the only thing I can recommend if this is the case, is to give
GeoServer
more heap.
It would be interested to simulate this load and see if we can do anything
to improve things on lower heap systems... but, gut feeling, it may require
a few
days of work


>
>
> It seems to be very unsafe to publish even a pretty small image mosaic
> like my four-image test mosaic as WCS without setting Resource Consumption
> Limits. Perhaps Geoserver should set some rather small default values for
> the limits instead of setting no limits like it does now. And if it is
> really so easy to make WCS to jam by sending many concurrent requests it
> might be good to mention the Control flow module
> http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/extensions/controlflow/index.html
> in http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/webadmin/services/WCS.html.
>

Yes, agreed, both good ideas. You might want to open a ticket for the first
one at least.

On, on the master series we have a coupe extra improvements that you might
want to check out using a nightly build:
http://ares.boundlessgeo.com/geoserver/master/

For large extractions WCS is not a suitable protocol anyways, as it does
not have a asynchronous mode, you might
want to have a look at the WPS download module instead, it's a community
module that we created with the sole purpose
of replacing WFS/WCS for large extractions where the asynch call support is
a must.

Cheers
Andrea

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